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ESTABLISHED 1891. BAMBERG-, S. 0., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1899. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. ^jjA DISPENSARY SENSATION liTHE BOARD DROPPED DOUTH1T. jTwo Hundred Pag<>s of Sworn Testi- *uiony Brings to Light Some Ugly 5Transactions?Loose Methods Gen- !eraliy in Vogne. (The State board of control has acted cupon the report of a special committee, cconsisting of Messrs. Haselden and IRobinson, who were appointed a month ,ago to investigate the management ofcontraband goods, and this report re- ssuited in the removal of CommissionerJ. B. Douthit, of Anderson, who was J?formerly a member of the State board.A synopsis of the report is as follows : 0The attention of your committee was *fir^t directed to the condition of affairs cof the contraband at the State dispen- 2sary building and all matters connect- Ftd {herewith.We are constrained to say that tD* 11d-fficuitks your committee encounter- Hed in its inquiry have been many, but "we are abie to present the facts em- ?? - ' .. nbraced in eiUdavits irom bouso iu ^, position to know from their personal 0knowledge and from official figures ob- ,talned from the bookkeepers of the institution,whicb are herewith filed andmade a part of this report. *Your committee summoned Consta- wbaiary Clerk Harris and requested a ,wstatement from him showing all contraoacdgoods reported to mm as seizeu 'and shipped in by the constables dur- u'ing Mr. Douthit's administration. ^The statement requested was furnished*and it covers the receipt cfgoods for a period of time commencing10th March, 1898, to 12th September,1899. wWe find that if Commissioner Dout- w.hit is charged with all contrabandgoods seized during his administra- ? jlion. as reported to Constabulary ClerkHarris as having be en sent in to the Adispensary, this will amount to $4,333. q72, and after giving him the propercredits, there is a deficit of $1,155.82 ^worth of contraband goods unaccountedfor.But the receiving book at the contrabandroom, kept by H. E. Watts, snows s?that during the same period of timecovered by Clerk Harris* statement, 8Uthat Commissioner Douthit is to becharged with only the sum of $4,069.77 ^?a difference of $262 95 between ?Harris' statement and Watts' books atI St*.. the State *ispensary. "After charging Commissioner Dou- ,thit with the sum of $4,069.77 of contrabandgoods, according to Walts' .books at the Slate dispensary, and ?after giving him the proper crtdits, svthere is a deficit of $741.57.But the committee find that the pro ?per deficit is $1,155.92, for the reason ,,that there are contraband goods fouad velsewhere in the building for wmchno records have been kept of their receiptsat the contraband room or else- inlwhere. We have sworn testimony of S0]tne receipt of contraband gooas at the *eidispensary which were stored away inthe commissioner's office and else*where on the premises, but a^the con hastables were warned that the State tbcommissioner would examine contentsof packages of contraband liquors m{sLipp&d to him, and compare them tewith the contents as reported on thelabel attached to the package, andas we have sworn statements from tbe suchiefs aDd others of the constabulary unforce that this order was given to tne or(men, your committee is irresistioly celed to the conclusion that CommissionerDou hit received the $262.95 worthoi contraband goods, and he is charged c0with this item. thWatts' books at the contraband room ershow that he had released the sum of th*390 2ft worth of contraband goods to **be returned, yet when your committee tnrequested a statement from the com- lesmissioner as to the amount of contra- du* band goods actually return d, it shows tr!only tae &um of $168 90 worth returncu?a difference of $151.30 between fu:Watts' books and Commissioner Dou- m)thit's books. So that, we find that ofthis difference of $151.30 should be m'charged back to the commissioner. StAddmg the $262 95 to the $15130makes $414 25, p.us tne sum of $741.57 cbmskearthe sum of $1,155.92 which veri- onI lies the Harris statement. itjYour committee was unable to find ev. any stat- meet on the books showing fo:the amount of contraband goods ac- intually turned over to Commissioner ceDouthit when he succeeded CommissionerVance, consequently Mr. Douthitis not charged with "any goodsturned over to him by Mr. Vance.We noticed from the records thatthe following contraband goods have acbeen reported as seized, and turned in: M248 glasses, 4 waiters, 12 ice tubs, 14 socrates. 4 refrigerators, 25 bottles, 3 arglass boxes, basket and beer glasses, 2 a<stills, 60 gallon capacity each, 2 copperstill , one lot of still fixtures, 5 mules a;and one horse, 2 wagons and harness, D1 basket, 1 faucet at $12. We have asnot been able to thoroughly look into b<the disposition of such articles as above hienumerated, on account of pressure of lemany other matters, but we direct tr, your attention to an unauthorized pri- revate sale made by Commissioner Dou- fcthis to Constable LaFar of a horse. 2We refer you to LaFar's testimony onthis subject. itWe call your special attention to the siloose way of doing business in regard fcrto the disposition of empties. Welearn, frojn the testimony of Superin pitendent Bryant, that at least two dhundred and fifty kegs, fifty jugs and hdemijohns were sold by him during <mMr.' Douthitfs administration, and he iistates in his affidavit that this does wnot include sales made by other officials c<at tiie dispensary ouuuiug , uu?v ?Bry nt received for sales made by dim aat least the sum of $50, and turned the yproceeds over to Bookkeeper Ouzis. bWe rtquested a statement from Cum- hmissioner Douthit, showing all sales of Gkegs, jugs and demijohns since he has Fbeen in office, and while his statementis indefinite because he refers to sales iimade in the plural number, ana sets iiopposite the amount, but he closes his cstatement with a showing o! the sum aof $54.75 worth of such articles sold, nwhicn, he saye, includes all sold duringhis incumbency. We find that dempties sold as high as fifty cents ceach. Mr. Bryant status that the re oceipts were turned in to Bookkeeper sOuzts for the same to be recorded. iWithout any comment as to the un- ilawful selling after hours, and toesa?es made from the State dispensary 1building in smali quantities to "a num- tber of parties of ail ages and coior fwho brought pitchers, buckets, etc.,'- twe refer you to tne sworn testimony.We desire also to direct your careful Jattention to the evidence, showing sthat the building has beeD found openat nig^t; that, oc one occasion, three !barrels of whiskey have been found at !night on the platform, p.nd allowed to <remain there that night, the nextday (being Sunday) and the followingnight.^iTiOtber feature of our investigation 'into matters pertaining to contraoanu 'seizures, not considering thu contraband liquors which are dumped andbotticd and shipped tc the v&r.ous dis//pensaries of the State, we finl that tb<>ales of contraband geods are large!;confined to two local dispenser? in the:ity of Columbia, aDd we iurbher tintthat su:h goods nave beeD sold cheap3P to the consumers by local dispen>ers than they are invoiced to dispensers.We would invite the consideratior)f the board to a practice which, acjording to the sworn testimony of thelispensary employees, has beer caried on during the administration o!k>mmissioner Douthit, known a:'changing of labels" on wbiskevhipped to the local dispensers.It seems, from the testimony, thaimder instructions from Commissioner)outhit, that one firm's labels wererde<*ed to be placed on another firm'srhiskey, and that high grade laneisave been placed on lower brand oloods.In this connection SuperintendentIryant says : " Yes, I put up whiskeya bottles with one firm's whiskey withnotiier firm's labels, but it was underastructions from Commissioner Douait."He further testifies that Lanaan'slabels were placed on the good;f the Wilson Distilling company.Ganttsavs: "Yes, whiskey is botedwith "one firm's label and withaother firm's whiskey. I have nevernown him to put a label on whiskeyhere the label was cheaper tha^j thehiskey. We put X corn whiskey withkbeis of XXX."King testifies that whiskey was putp last Saturday, and XXX label wassed, but the firm name, " Wilsonistilling Co.," was struck off.Barnh&rdt, the assistant superinindent,testified that: 411 have nevercown him to put a label on whiskeyhere the label was cheaper than thehiskey. Have known him to put*on> high as XXX label on Grover whisky?whichI have heard is X goods1 1 s\ f /ihontTOdQJiVO KCpii iiUB rciiUi u vi uulov kuau^vohishas been in practice during Mr.outhit's administration. They put uprover's whiskey Saturday morningith Wilson's labels, but the namerilson was struck off."C. H. Charles, assistant bookkeeper,ates "thatGrover's whiskey is classed |X corn whiskey, and the differencethe price of X and XXX corn to conmersis $1 per gallon."We conceive it to be our duty to re>rtthe facts to the board as theyally appear, but in our finding thenclusion cannot be escaped that thioheme of changing' the labels onliskey shipped out could have beenvised for no other purpose than toeate a way for collecting more moneyr the goods sent out to the local disnsersthan the same were invoicedto the commissioner ; and, further,create the impression on the memrsof the board that certain brandsire becoming more popular, theying hard to keep in stock."We finds that this practice of chang*labels is not only done for the readsstated, .but it is absolutely indexiblefrom any standpoint, and conivenesthe spirit and letter of thew, aDd candor compels us to aud it,s unquestionably worked a fraud one people of South Carolina.We suggest immediate action in thisitter, and if this practice is nowing carried on that it te forthwith>pped.We further find that the practice ofostitution of orders has been iu vogueder Mr. Douthit's administration?tiers have been substituted when reivedfrom the city of Charleston and>ewhtre in the State.We find that, on the order of themmissioner, without authority frome board, or without the commissioneverhaving reported his action toe board, sixty-nine cases of winesjre transferred from Dispenser Stoart to Dispenser Stelling, in Charston,on July 11th. The price was reicedto one dollar per case when ibeinsfer was made. And exclusive ofis, by order of the commissioner, arther unauthorized reduction waside to the extent of $287.15 in salesR?wr?Lr Hill unri Minora wines. Theseitters resulted in a clear loss to theate of the sum of $402 65.We find that the commissioneranged the price list, issuing a newe of August 1st, without any authorj7from the board and without evener reporting his action to the boardr its approval or disapproval, resultgin a loss to tbe State of twelve perntum.J. Djjdley Haselden.T. C. Robinson,Committee.The report of the committee waslepted after hearing a statement fromr. Douthit. Messrs. Haselden, Robinnand Miles voted to adopt the reportid Messrs. Williams and Boy kinrainst the motion.Subsequently Messrs. Geo. Johnstoneid G. E. Prince, as attorneys for Mr.outhit, appeared before the board,id requested that he be given a fullsaring, urging that the investigationad been ex parte, and that he had agal and moral right to be confronted7 his accusers. The board declined toiopen the matter, and adopted theblowing resolutions by a vote of 3 toas already given, namely :Whereas, under the dispensary lawis provided that the commissionerlall be subject to removal for csusey the State board of control, andWhereas the committee duly apointedto investigate the receipts andisbursements of the contraband roomas in its report formally charged theommissioner, J. B. Douthit, with gross'regularities and official misconductrhich, in the opinion of the board ofoctroi?based upon his own admissions-is sufficient cause for his removal,fnv tchir.h nause the said boardUU V4 ?* ? _ _eeterday removed him by vote of theoard; and, whereas formal demandas been made by his attorneys, Messrs.leorge Johnstone and George E.'rince, for a rehearing, be itResolved, That the board, realizingts responsibilities, and cognizant ofts official duty in the premises, delinesto reconsider its action, and that.s far as it is concerned the incidentQust be closed.Resolved further, That from tb islate and p:nding the election of a comnissionerall checks issued on accountif the business of the board will be isuedand signed by the clerk, B. CiVcbb, and countersigned by the chairnan and no other person or persons.- Resolved further, That all papers reating to the said investigation b?,urned over to the attorney generaor such action as he deems proper t(irotect the interest of the State.Kiaolved further, That a copy oihese resolutions be served on Coramisdoner Douthit at once by the clerk.Under the advice of his attorneysMr. D-?uthit has declined to relinquis:the office, and the prospect is that tb?courts will have to settle the matter.It is the best outward application or wwould soon go out of business, as we guaiantee Alligator Liniment to prove satisfactory in the relief and care of Kheumttism, Neuralgia and all pains that a pentrating application woaiid seem auvisablo use Try it! Don't take anything else.d A GREAT OVATION TO BRYANy" TrXAS DrMOCRATIC CARNIVAL.llhe Tcxans Yell Until They AreHoarse When Bryan Appears?HeMakes a Strong Speech Against} Imperviaiism.The Democratic carnival at Dallas,Texas, was a great success. Fully10,000 persons were in the grand standf at the fair grounds when the speakers5 made an appearance, and Mr. Bryan re'ceived a grand ovation upon his entrance.He spoke at night to an im'mense audience, and was greeted with' the utmost enthusiasm. He said in! part:1 " Lincoln in a message to Congress; in' the earlj sixties, said mat no manwas more to be trusted in our governmentthan the man who toils in poverty.I am not fiattering you when I tellyou that when the supporters of a Democracy?agovernment where thepeople rule, a government of the people,by the people and for the peoplemustfind its support among the peoplewho work, among the c?mmon people,if you please, and there i6 no 1better indication of the departure ofthe Republican party from tbe peoplethan is to be foun<i?i the fact thatwhenever a man now speaks of theplain people as Lincoln described them,he is denounced as a demagogue. Thatman is a statesman whose ear is strainedto catch the slightest pulsations ofa pocketbook, while he is a demagoguewho tries to listen to the heart beat ofhumanity."But pardon me for dealing so longwith what you may call old issues. I 1want to speak of new issues. If we~ a/Iott nr? t V* CkCOUlCt gO 10 LUC UUUUwrjr i?uuoj uu vuvvery same platform that we had in '1896, and have do other issue pre- ]sented, I believe that we could win our Jfight; but Providence hss been good ito us, and in the last two years issues <have been presented to us in addition 1to those we had in 1896. We have 'not only grown on the old issues, butwe have grown on the new ones. The IRepublican party today stands for a Jlarge army. In 1896 we had 25,000 Jsoldiers in the regular army,* and inDecember, 1898, a Republican Presi- *dent asked for 100,000 soldiers in the *standing army, making four times as 1great as that of 1896, a.- asked for by a tPresident in 1896, and if any Rspubi - *can tells you that the President wanted cthese soldiers to beat down an up- irising in the Philippine islands, you ftell him that a Republican asked for 1100,000 soldiers two months before tthere W88 any uprising in the Philip- tpine islands. At the time the Presi- adent sent his message to Congress in Jthe early part of December, there was tno uprising anywhere. The treaty awith Spain was practically agreed tupon, and there was no evidence of anynecessity for a large army, except as aa permanent policy of this govern- Cment; so that when Mr. McKinley aasked for the army it was not for an oemergency, but it was for the p'-rma inent, continued policy of the United aStates. In other words we are to 1choose between an army of 25,000 and ran army of 100,000. I will venture the eassertion that in any of the nations uthat have gone to militarism you can- pnot find an instance %vhere such a large iincrease was demanded. Consider a cmoment. Grant an increase of 300 per ecent at the very first step. How easy eit wiil be to give them 100 per cent eo?/s ii. and then one hundred iiauu uvuv*w 4?jmore and double it, and make it four uhundred per cent. When you start on ;the road from dependence upon the vpeople to dep-naence upon prcfes ceionai soldiers, there is no place to gstop until you reach the endurance of ithe people. In Europe they have anarmed soldier riding the back of every t,toiler. Tnere were men in the Re- cpublican party that wanted a large farmy. They nave wanted it for years, jbut they could not get it because there cwas no necessity for it, but the mo- iment the Philippine question came, thow quickly did they take advantageof it, and hiding behind what theycalled a necessity, they then demanded *this increase that they have wanted ?for many years. I do not believe thelaboring men of this Union will look *with favor upon this attempt to make Ja great military establishment, which,when created, will not only be a bur- Iden to the producers of wealth, butwill be a menace to their governmentitself. * j"Some one has referred tonight to ,the case of France. Wnen you find a tgreat army demanding the conviction ,of an innocent man, my frieDds, the |French President had to immediatelypardon the convicted man out.of re- jspect for the protests of the civil'zed jworld against militarism. (Cheers.) <And when in this Union we have a Jgreat standing army, we would have a (horde of life-holding officers. Whenwe have a horde of soldiers, we will j?*. the hnrrinn that is borne I ,UUl UUAjr ua.w ?.*?in other nations, but a grave menace .to the very principles of the life of ,our government itself; and also, my ,friends, if we have an imperial policy jwe will have a large standing army.You never can reduce the army below (100,000. It will be constantly aug- jmented if this nation enters upon an ,imperial policy, and let me say a word ,here about that word imperialism, jOur opponents do not like to be callea [imperialists. I am not surprised. Ihave known them before to object to iwords that described them. I rememberthat in 1896 they did not want to ,be called gold bugs ; they wanted to be Jcalled advocates of sound4money and ofan honest dollar; but they did not wantto be called gold bugs. It was notuntil after the election that they blossomedout as gold bugs and pointed to /th9 victory, gold standard. And nowtbey do not want to be called .'imperialists.Thty say they are expansionists.Well, they do not seem to be expansionists.The word does not fit. Ifwo were going up in the wilds ofCanada and take a stretch of countryto be settied by American citizens, itwould be expansion. It would be extendingthe limits of a republic ; butwhen we cross the ocean it is not exipansion; it is imperialism. It is imperiaiism and no other term describes; it. What defense do they give for animperial defense? INot one in ten wmgive any defense at all. The first manyou meet tells you that it is now toolate to discuss the question becausethe ratification of the treaty settledi that. The next man tells you that it! is not time to discuss it yet because) the Filipinos have not laid down theirarms. And the third one says thatf while he does not know what is going to- be done, that he has implicit confidencein the President. (Laughter.) It is. unrd to get a man to defend imperial.ism, but when you get a man who hasthe audacity to defend an imperialpciicy, you will find that he will make.ns of three defenses, i have neverhtard but three defenses of imperialeism. The first is the financial argumcnt,that there is money in it. Thesecond is the rel gious argument thatj* God is in it. The third is the politi'ecal argument, that we are in it, andI can't get cut of it. (Laughter.) * Thesei iiro the only three reasons that. I havetvt r htard given. Let me say a wordi about each.I 44My friends, I do not like to discuss ij a great question upon the low plane i! of dollars and cents. If I were to ask30U what you thought of th3 cotnImandmeLt, 44 Thou shalt net steal,''would you get a lead pencil and paper 1and try to figure up the amount to he .stolen and the chances of being caughtbefore you would give me an answer Iun the subject ? To me it seems to be jas absord for a man to begin to calcu- 1I--.. - ? -3?11 ... ? ~ tha txr i /?rn l?f 1liitc 111 UUtiai ? auu UCIibC v..an imperial policy. In 1S96 they denouncedthe Chicago platform. Someminister said that the platform waswritten ia heli; another said that thedevil wrote it, and the last remark Ifelt to be a little personal, because Ihelped to write a part of it." I do notoeiieve a single piank violates the tencommandments or the morai law, auuif you can show me a plank in thatplatform which violates any of tuecommandments or any moral precept,I am willing to abandon it and neveragain advocate it. But tnere is nomatter what you may tbink of thatplatform, the party's position upon tnePniiippine question sets fortn. so thatno Ktpub ican can urge that about it.Tne position is this : Tnat this countrycannot afford to do wrong, no matterhow mucn it pays."CHAMP CLASH TALKS DEMOCRACY.Among the speakers at the carnival <was Champ Clark, of Missouri, and a ipart of what he said is as follows :"Little by little Ripublicaa leaders iare throwing off the mask and showing 1tneir utter contempt lor the principles 'of representative government and for jthe interests, the wishes and the wei- Jfare of tne American people. Day by <lay they are demonstrating their com- fpiete surrender and servility to trusts, <imperialism, militarism and the single 1gold standard?the inexorable Moloch ijf the nineteenth century. They are tgrowing rapidiy not in grace ana good iworks, but in aisgrace anu bad works, <" The process of ramming tne singlefold standard down the throat ol the iRepublican party goes merrily on, with cdyrnan J. Gage, secretary of the troas- ?lry, who ratted to the Republicans for ?i cabinet portfolio, in the roil of ram- Iner-in-cnief. One virtue doth Lym^D c>ossess?he is a candid, out-and-out *joldbug. In his pnilosophy, might fnakes right, and having the power to tistaoiish tne goid standard, ne pro- *>oses to do it without doiay, without c)aiaver and without mercy, in the end t-.yinan and his coadjutors will have sheir way, and w.li play ruwinessiy and Cleartiessiy the part ol Juggernaut lor euea timorous souls as benatorJohn cd. Thurston, ol Nebraska, wuo go aban- Cml moaning piteousiy aoout that ab- tndbned plank of 1896 in lavor of in- cernationai bimetallism. t"if tney do whip iu ail their men g.ndcarry the Atlantic City bill througn a)ongr6ss, 1 make bold to predict that smotQer Republican Congress will i(icver sit in tne capitol at Washington, Eor the bulk ol tne American people a>re opposed to "more thoroughly estab 1ishlng the gold standard, opposed to wetiring the greenbacks, opposed to a alew issue of luterest bearing bonds and clualterabiy opposed to larming out the 5taramount and dangerous power of ex- elanding and contracting tne volume oi Eurrency to any private person whsth S:r natural or artificial. Upon tais broad- P1 - ' * - ' ?. iMit thii </A\7? f Cir na&ociajL ibouc ui whu^ ^v*irnment shall retain the function of Jssuing money or shall aodicate in favor vif the National Ban* Association,nousanas of hone&t and patriotic men ?rho fought us in 1896 will raily under ?iur banner, and, with Thurston's dis- v[runtied free siiver McKtnley Kepub- 9icans, give us the victory* ?"The plain, unvarnished truth is that }he R?publican party resembles a hill ?if potatoes more than anything else, ?or the best part of it is under grouod. cThe new-fangled and un-American cloctrine of Asiatic inperiaiism has led ?he Republican party into repudiating .:very idea lor which Lincoln stood. 1'How are the mighty fallen. The ^>arly Republicaus deluged the contin- rmt in blood to emancipate four brother jn black latter day" Republicans pur- ?ue a policy which reintroduces human tilavery in the Sulu and Hawaiian is- tands under the protection of the tAmerican flag, hitherto fondly called gthe banner of the free.' r' James Buchanan, the last Demoera- ric president, sent an army to thrash j3righam Young, the great Utah poly- L?ami8t; William McKinley, the latestind, let us hope, the last Republicanpresident, pays tribute to the Sulu poygamist."Imperialism has led us into tolerat- jeg a press censorship, into scoffing atihe declaration of independence, intospitting upon the constitution, into apractical abandonment of the Monroe:oc trine. j"Under Republican maladministra- ];ion we are to sacrifice every principle 'which we have cherished, every princi- Jpie which has tended to make us greatV.mnwarl ja q r?or?nl? in nrdfir that ^ZfcUVA UVUV1 vu c*>9 Hwe may bully a helpless people, fight- 1ing for the inalienable right to govern Jthemselves as they please?on their 1Dwn ground?seven thousand miles jfrom our shores. For the sake of hu- ]man freedom, and in the name of theproud race to which I belong, I protest 1against such infernal idiocy. It is notour duty to carry liberty to all the 1world; it is our duty, and should be our 'pleasure, to attend strictly to our own 'business, keep out of world politics,steer clear of world quarrels and preservethe blessings of liberty to our !posterity."?A celebrated German physician isauthority for the statement that ail ;our senses do not slumber simultaneously.They fall into insensibility one iafter another. First the eyelids obscuresight, and the sense of taste isthe next to lose susceptibility. Smelling,hearing and touch follow in theorder named, touch being the lightestsleeper aad the most easily aroused.?It has-b:ea decided by the Bathcorporation to place a tablet uoou thehouse in St. James squa* n whichDickens was wont to reside on the occasionof his visit to the old citywhither Pickwick retired after thememorable trial. As it was whilestaying at this house that the novelistcreated JLittie inch, tae laoiet is p?itioularlyappropriate.?The champion long distance horsebackrider in America is Mrs. NellieA. Wheeler of Greenwood, Ky., whohas completed a journey from herSouthern home to Kokomo, Ind., whereshe is a guest of her uncle, Charles? mmerman. Mrs. Wheeler made thetrip of 900 miles In less than threeweeks.?Mrs. Mary S. Wilson, who recentlycelebrated her 91st birthday at OysterBay, L. I., is living in a house whichis nearly 800 years old. and on theporch of which George Washingtonshook hands with the people of thetown.THE PASSING OP THE BANJO.Tlie Negro is Less Mirthful and Les9 EImprovident--More Morose andMore Melancholy.Waterburv (Conn.) American.David P. St. Clair has been revisit- eaing the South of his birth after a ten ^years' absence. He contributes to the s0Criterion various evidences of the a (change which has passed over the negroof the South, developing out of the tj("old time darky," "a self-conscious ^colored man, less op imistic, less mii th- 0jful, less improvident, perhaps, more Damorose, more melancholy, with a more ?eacute sense of pain and suffering." In ^short, under the new conditions, the tnSouthern negro is developing a sensi- <pttive nervous system like that of the anwhite man, and with it the white man's m{complaints, such as dyspepsia, sleep- an'lo^noco roi.nniu hpariftp hp pt.p pf p _iV,UCU^CC) XXV/1 ?--W - ?JJJOne sign of the changed negro Mr. griSt. Clair find? in the passiDg of the babanjo. "I saw a number of colored thiexcursions made up from both the jestown and country, and not once did I taihear a banjo. But instead well-groom- \ed colored men from town thrummed a g0'guitar or Zither, or were busy winding woup a music box." Mr. St. Clair attri- y01butes this to the desire of the Southern m0negro to do what the white man doe3. pUWith the passing of the banjo has also terpassed the spontaneous love of song ; 0f;" the sort of song one was wont to hear $00at the corn-husklngs, log-rollings, 93house-buildings and railroad-buildings mein the 70's and 80s." In a small town un]in North Carolina Mr. St. Clair sawfifty young negroes laying water pipes, thi" working in absolute silence and iheirfaces as glum as so many Italian pipe W0;layers in New York.'* He assed one thaaf them to start a song, but "the re- due>ponse was so feeble that the tune soon thelollapsed." The foreman explained to m0aim : 44 Dese niggers can't sing no grenore like dey used to." Mr. St. Clair the.hinks the explanation, 44 Dey's in no thiinood," seems to 41 get near the heart wh)f the secret." limFor another thing, Mr. St. Clair exclotes the change of the negro in their woiihurches. . The modern organ, choir fulmd educated ministers hold the con- ine:rregation's emotions well iE check, thale recently witnessed a scene in a theloiorea enurcn in a boutnern city, souvhere the elegant and scholarly and)reacher dropped into a strain of old- theime fervor and stirred every man and thevoman in the house to an intense ex- Elitement.' Attempting in vain to calm i6inhe storm he had raised the preacher go]<at down in utter disgust. Mr. St. the31air heard a half dozen sermons from knoiducated colored preachers and not Theince was the word " heil " mentioned, mes)ne minister explained to him that andhis was due partly to a change in the- dre<logical views, but also to the fact that it ip' we cannot restrain our people if we coni:o on talking to them about hell. We use), re now trying to teach our people to rea- andon and think." In Mr. St. Clair'sopin- tiveon, the self-consciousness of the new g0iclegro has brought with itself-restraint, Vah,nd that not more than 5 per cent, of $50,he negroes are guilty of the outrages rapfhich have caused the lynchings. He abo,dds that " in private the " severest 000ritic of these brutes is the negro him- $40,eif." OwiDg to the race feeling, how- $55ver, the negroes are not able to de- tounce these outrages in public. Mr. trac?t. Clair adds that " when a negro andtreacher 's able to declare from his sonitulpit, 'Your race will outlaw you if t,un(ou commit this crime,' then the crime thanil no longer be committed." WOrMr. St. Clair say3 that the colored ma(nan, keenly conscious of his hard lot, ext]s rushing into the towns and cities, rjeryhere he is crowded into the foulest suc][uarters, entailing effects the most ap- p[a<?aliing, especially developing consumpionand insanity, whose ravages have t,ioctitherto not been great among the ne- ove'roes. He thinks that the negro is a 0f 1leeply disappointed creature because 0^(if the failure to give him the ballot qUtJmd that every time he hears the word a?Q(4 'lection " he has 44 some such sinkngfeeling as a disinherited son has ^eeiver his lost inheritance." Despite pafhis, however, there is no race develop- pronent of malice. The negro's crimes, ^ ale says, are largely the result of ignor- wjj]inee and irritation. 44 But," he con- Ddudes, 44 with all the changes that are 8ec),aking place, the negro still remains rhe best judge of a gentleman in the ^aJouth. When he tells you this white t^enan is a gentleman and the other islot, you have got an opinion from an majnstinct that is never fooled on this de- ^ericate point." 8k0? Ed(THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. ^nteresting Facts in Regard to theMatter and the Changes That WillTake Place.The Scientific American considers it ^leceasary to advise its readers that gm,he twentieth century begins with theTanuary 1, 1901, and not with January FiliL, 1900, as some of them suppose. racjThe Scientific American is unaoubt- Daridly correct, but it is strange hownany persons and intelligent persons, gb|wo, ?ill stand you down that the nine- gte;jeenth century will end with the last ^oalay of December, this year, and that WQ]ihe first moment of January, 1900, will outbe the beginning of the twentieth cen- oye'Ury. sueThe fact that the great Paris ex- tr0? - A U A1/) nflwf roa K Qa in.position la bu uc uciu ucad juugjreased the erroneous belief that the an(twentieth century begins with the -tyear 1900, but the Paris exposition c&rwill celebrate the close of the nine- ttesnth century, rather than the open- Qf (Lng of the twentieth.The twentieth century will open ona Tuesday and close on a Sunday. Itwill have the greatest number of leap ?n1years possible for a century?twenty- tv5four. The year 1904 will be the first *rfone," then every fourth year after that v':to and including the year 2000. Feb- gigruary will three times have five Sun- th<days ; in 1920, 1948 and 1976. *The twentieth century will contain is j36,525 days, which lacks one day of tbibeing exactly 5 218 weeks. The mid- dedie day of the century will be January1, 1951.Several announcements are made ofchanges to be inaugurated with the y<:beginning of the new century. The tofirst of imparlance is that Russia willadopt the Gregorian calendar. This rwill be done by omitting thirteen days, anthe amount of error that will have ac- Ticumulated after the close of February,- c\{1900. The Russian will then write SoJanuary 1, 1901, instead of December tb19, 1900, or rather, instead of both, ac- r( ;cording to the dual system now in anvogue in that country and in Greece.The other important announcement is ic,that it is not at all unlikely that theastronomical day, which now begins atnnnr nf the civil dav. will begin withtha civil day at midnight. Toe presantmethod of having the astronomical *day to begin twelve hours after the ^beginning of the civil day is apt to beconfusing.In many countries festivities and celebrations of various kinds are already 5^being projected and arranged in honor ^of the century which will dawn beforemost of us are ready for it.?At- orlanta Journal. wGOLD IN SOUTH A TT11UA.normous Production in the LastTen Years?The Diamond Minesand Other Mineral Deposits.The mining: interests of Africa,pecia'.ly the wonderful gold andamend mines which have attractedmuch attention, are the subject ofchapter in the monograph just preired by the treasury bureau of statistson commercial Africa in 1899.uch of the recent rapid developmentAfrica, especially, in the southern,rt, where the greatest rapidity ofvelopment has occurred, is due toe discovery and development of extmelyvaluable mineral deposits.?a mnct. valimhle nf these are ffoldd diamonds, though incidentally itiv be mentioned that the iron, coald" other mineral deposits of Southd Southeast Africa give promise ofeat value when wealth-seeking mans time to turn his attention from3 gold mines to those which promiseis rapid, but perhaps equally cernprofits.That the gold and diamond mines ofuth Africa have been, and .still are,nderfully profitable, however, is beadquestion. The Kimberley dinmdmines, says the St. Louis Reblic,which are located in Britishritory, just outside the boundariesthe Orange Free State and abouti miles from Cape Town, now supplyper cent, of the diamonds of comrce,although their existence wasjnown prior to 1867, and the mines?e thus been in operation but aboutrty years.It is estimated that $350,000,000rth of rough diamonds, worth double>t sum after cutting, have been proJedfrom the Kimberley mines since ,sir opening in 1868-9, and this enorusproduction would have beenatly increased but for the fact that .' owners of the various mines in j3 city formed . an agreement byich the annual cutout was soited as to meet but cot materially jeed, the annual consumption of theId's diamond markets. So pienti- jis the supply, and so comparatively .xpensive the work of production, (? Hiomnnd A 1 rrrr'y r, rr in OC liart.B nfV UIUUJVUU Ut^glUg 1U wv v? ^world has almost ceased since the <ith African mines entered the field,the result is, as stated above, thaty now supply over 98 per cent, ofdiamonds ol oommerce.qttally wonderful and equally promgare the great Witwatersrandi fields of South Africa, located inSouth African republic, betterwn as the Johannesburg mines.5 Dutch word "Witwatersrand"ins literally "White Water Range,"the strip of territory afewbunimiles long and in width to which: applied was but a few years agoaidered a nearly worthless ridge,, fulonly for the pasturage of cattlesheep, and for even this comparaily valueless. In 1883, however,1 was discovered, ard in 188-1 thele of the gold production was about000. It increased with startlingiditv, the production in 1888 beingut $5,000,000: that of 1890. $1,000,;1892, over $30,000,000; 1895, over000.000, and 1397 and 1898, about000,000 in each year,his wonderful development his at;tedgreat attention to South Africadrawn thither thousands of perilin the hope ol realizing quick for23.Development, howeved, showedt the mines could be successfullyked only by the use of costlyihinery, and while they hav9 beenreme'y productive where muchiyhas been used, they were not ofa character as to make hand orjer mining profitable as was the} in California. The gold prodaciin the "Rand" since 1884 has beenr $300,000,000, and careful surveysthe field Dy the use of drills ander processes of experts show beyondstion tbat tbe " in sight" probabiy)unts to $3,500,000,000, while theje n mber of mines which haven located in adjacent territory,ticularly in parts of Rhodesia, givemise of additional supplies, so thatleems probable that South Africat for many years continue to be, as ('a 1 o (?nM.nrnH nnitiff" lOj VL1XJ loiggou gVLUlion of the world.iecent d'scoveries led to the belief Jt these wonderfully rich mines are ilong lost '** gold of Ophir," fromich Solomon obtained bis supplies, Jking " a navy of ships in Ezion-Ge- ., which is opposite Eloth on the !re of the Bed sea in the land of ')m, and Hiram sent in the navy his jrants, shipmen that had knowledge jhe sea, with the servants of Solo- jq, and they came to Ophir and fetchthencegold and brought it to King 'omon." ijeut. Win ship's Brave Act.? jory Winship, assistant engineer in jnavy, held an entire regiment of jipinos at bay while 125 of his com- 1es escaped to their boats. While atv from the Bennington were makareconnoissance at Malabon, Win- (p was sent ashore in charge of the iurn cutter conveying three open ..t loads of men. The landing party ;at inshore too far without sending Iscouts and was surprised by an ;:rpowing force of natives, who purdthem fiercely. The Americans restedtoward the shore, hotly purid.Winship was alone in the launch, I1 at ono realizing the desperateaation, he unlimbered the revolvinginnn of the launch and opened aady fire upon the enemy. He was,30ur9e, the mark of the whole bation,but he kept his place unfiioch;ly,his finger on the trigger, andired a deadly fire upon the Filipinostil they turned and fled, leavingrty dead on the shore. Then theive young officer fell back with fivellets in his body. Commedore Taussaysthat but for Winship none ofj party would have escaped.The gallant young man who did thisa native of Georgia and graduatedree years ago from the naval acamy.?The entrance of William Rockelerinto the directorate of the New>rk Central road is taken as a textherald the appearance of the bilnairecorporation, the Vanderbiltdltidn/iamoaninc theaiUHuvw -w - ?pjlalgamaiion of $1,000,000,000 capital,le Vanderbilt roads at present inldemore than 26,000 miles. If theulhern Pacific system is added toe new combination, the roads willach every frontier of the couutry,d will comprise over 33,000 miles, orjre than one-fifth of the entire Ameranmileage.?The efficacy of the automobile in*ountain climbing has been proven byr. and Mrs. F. O. Stanley of Newton,ass., whose automobile made the asnt of Mount Washington, 6,300 feet>ove sea level.?Cornelius Vanderbilt inherited lesaan $60,000,000 in 1885. . and in 14:ars increased it to more than $100,0,000.?Hiram Cronk, of New York, is thelly surviving pensioned soldier of thear of 1812. He is 99 years old.1'HJbi uaukui; uf u. K.uumvxitvaEAThe Famous Mill Builder of thePiedmont?His Rarly Life in Vermontand Canada?A Volunteer ini he -^oulederate Service.The Spartanburg correspondent ofthe News and Courier gives the followingsketch of the late D. E. Converse,of that city :D-xter EJgar Converse was bornin Swanton, Vermont, 1828. His ancestorcame over from England withGovernor Winthrop in 1630. His fatherdied vhen he was only 3 years old,and he was brought up by an uncleover on the Canada side. In his boyhoodhe was taught the very importantlesson of self-reliance and thinkingwhile he was at work. He carriedthe habit of thought and actionthrough his whole life.He first entered a woollen mill withhis uncle, aDd after working there.J ' 4 ? J ? j. ?some ume Lie aceepbcu. a pusiwuij iu acotton mill at Cohoes, New York,which he held five years.In 1855 he came Southward in searchof a place where he might fiad work.That was before the days of railroadsin the Piedmont. He stopped in LincolnCounty, N. C., and made some investigationsof a little yarn mill or twoin that section.He then came to this county andapplied to John Bomar, who was principalowner of a little mill at Bivingsville,now Giendale, for work. Mr.Bomar had no special job for a stranger,but Mr. Converse, in going throughthe mill seemed to know so much aboutthe machinery that Mr. Bomar concuded that he would give him a placein tne mill.Mr. Converse proved so efficientthat It was soon seen that he was amost valuable acquisition. The millwas then perhaps the largest in tneup-country. It was in an old weatherboardbuilding and had only 1,300spindles and 20 looms. ?Before 1860Mr. Converse owned some stock in themill and was the general manager.Bis brother-in law, A. H. Twichell,bad come tc the mill meantime. Whenthe war came both these young men;ntered the Confederate service as privatesand served in Company C, 13th> A TT muKj* v. xiivy uau luquc up biiQir fnicds that the South was their adoptedlome and they would fight for it.fUler remaining in service several inonths Mr Bomar, feeling that he:ouid uot run the mill without the aid <)f these experts, applied to the Governmentand had them released from ilervice in order that they might do 1nore good fo>* the Confedei acy at homei&an they couid do in the field. Thus ,,he old Bivingtville factory during theour years of war supplied hundredsmd thousands of families with yarn to ,nake cloth for people at home and inhe field.After the war '*as over the D. E.Converse Company was formed and aiew brick building took the -place of.he wooden one, and improved machi- 1lery took the place of the old, and,hus the first well equipped cottoniiill of the up-country was built. From 1,bat event dates all the fine mills of 'ihe Piedmont, and it was in a greatneasure owing to the success of Mr. 1Converse that mill building increased iio rapidly in the State.Aoout 1880 Mr Converse formed a <jompany, bought the old Hurricane 'shoals, or Rolling Mill property, on jPacolet, and built Clifton Mill No J. Irben 2 followed, and No 3 was finishedibout two years ago. Mr. Converse was)resident of all these mills. They ;jave an aggregate of 3,768 looms and ..18,072 spinules.. He is also interested ,n other mills, and a stockholder and ,lirector of the three banks at thisjlace. jWhen a female school was talked of- pseveral years ago Mr. Converse was ,merested and was a iargestockholder ,n the first organization; Since that 'ae has given large sums to ConverseCollege, and took:.great pleasure in ;ihe success of the' institution. With>uthis aid it would not be the impor- '1 (a *kn a/ln/lfltiftB r?f oirla'ikLIU lttV<Ur 1U Hue ciuvnuvu w?Lhat.it is to-day.He married Mis9 Twicbell, a sister i)f A. H. Twichell, treasurer of these (jotton mills. She with one daughter,Miss Marie Converse, survive him. ,Mr. Converse was a member of the ,Preabj terian Church and a liberal supporterofjit. He was gentle in manners,kind in all his relations with the peopleabout the mills, helpful towardsthe needy at all times. He was neverprone to speak of the evil in others,but could generally see some good inall. As a neighbor and friend he willbe greatly missed in this community.Lf he had never built a mill, but had?one inio any other business, he wouldbave been a quiet, honored leader ofthe community. The people of thePiedmont are unanimous in honoringand respecting him for the work hehas done, and for the genuine manhoodthat was in him.??? JAndebson's New Plan.?The Andersoncorrespondent of The Statesay9: "Wednesday afternoon as avoung lady pupil of the graded school,a daughter of one of our most highlyrespected citizens, who lives about amile and a half from town, was returninghome from school about 3 o'clock,and when in sight of home, she wasaccosted by a negro by the name ofTom Jenkins, who made an indecentproposal to her, followed by an indecentexposure of his person. Theyoung lady fled, screaming, towardhome, and outran the negro and escapeel his ciutcnes."The affair did not leak out untiltoday, when a party of determinedmen set out to capture the negTO,which they did. They gave him hischoice of lynching or submitting to acertain surgical operation. He acceptedthe latter, and the operation wasthoroughly, successfully and scientificallyperformed. The negro was carriedback to his home and told he mustclear himself of these parts as soon ashe was well enough. This is the Andersonplan, and beats lynching."?A correspondent of the New YorkEvening Post at Manila says that thestreet cars of that far Eistera city arealready ornamented with whiskey advertisements,and adds : "Surely weshall yet civilize these people. Theyare an abstemious race, but we can, bypersistent energy and advertising,added to tbe force of example, curethem of that."?Lyman Barnes, of Ottawa, Kans.,tried to enlist in the army one day- - - ? ^ i-; r???last week, out iounu luuiaou mutpounds short in weigh).. He wentaway and for twenty-four hours stuffsdhimself with food, with the result ofgaining the four pounds and admissioninto the service. The local paper saysthat he ate no less than ten meals inone night and a day.?Dr. C. J. Hoadiey, the ConnecticutState librarian, has in his possessionan old placard or 44 dodger " which wasdistributed ten days after the death ofWashington and announces a memorialservice in Hartford.i ir.Ma ut utar,nrtti mxcituu9i?Quaint and Curious ParagraphsGathered irom Various Sources.?The Cleveland street railroadstrike cost Ohio 325:000 for tranapo ta- ition and maintenance of the militia.T A?Rats recently operated the strikingmechanism of the disused Flashing,L. I., town clock for severalhours.?Santa Cruz, Cal., is perhaps theonly municipality in which water is $furnished frpe to inhabitants for do* 3mestic purposes.-Pekin is now to Lave an electric *- jrailroad running from the south gateof the city to the steam railroad station,and it is even hoped that permissionto enter the city may soon be obtained.The road is built by a German?Judge Jackson, of the United "|jSStates district court of West Virginia, vwas appointed by President Lincoln,and at 76 years of age is rendering aotiveand acceptable service.?A couple in Parkersburg, W. Va.,are just now enjoying their third .honeymoon, their previous marriageexperience have been diversified by :two divorces, all within eight years.?The wearing of a brand new pair ^of rubber shoes while preparing- supper saved the life of a woman in Pennsylvaniafrom a bolt of lightningthat played about her feet daring a *storm at her home.?In the returning Colorado volunteersis.the tallest man in the Americanarmy?Color Sergt. Richard G. Holmes,who stands 6 feet 6 inches . J /;in his stockings and weighs 216 pounds.?It is one of the pecularities of the \v;laws of Denmark that the crown mostbe worn by a-Christian and a Freder- 'ick alternately. .The system originatedwith Christian IT, wb~ reignedfrom 1513 to 1523, and wa succeededby Frederick I.?Scientists have discovered that thememory is stronger in summer than inwinter. Among the worst foes of thememory are too much food, too much Nphysical exercise, and, strangely ' ^enough, too much education.?A favorite dish of the Eskimo isan ice cream mad: of seal oil intowhich snow is stirred until the desired ^constituency has been obtained; thenfrozen berries of differ -nt kinds areadded with a little of the fish egg tor vplflavoring.?Rear Admiral Farqubar, who willsucceed Sampson as the commander ofthe Nortn Atlantic squadron on October10, got his first experience of thesea in 1859, along the coast of Africa,when a portion of oar navy was engagedin suppressing the slave trade.?Bombay has a railroad which is . ^used in connection with the sanitation :of the town. According to The Engineer,it is over three miles long andis intended for transporting the road j.sweepings to a piece of land nearlyJOG acres in extent?The postmaster of New York ha^l /been directed to have all street letterand package boxes painted in luminousbronze paint, so that the boxes may bddistinguished more readily at nightjJM|*3JThe paint has in it a compound ofntowj^ * f!|gphorous which shows quite brigyupfjPv^Fthe dark.?Senator Mason, of Illinois, whoopposesthe Filipino war, says his oppositionis not an opposition of expansion..He adds: " Expansion by purchaseor other honorable means is onething; expansion by force is another.Why cannot we deal with the Filipinosu we dealt with the Cubras?"-Ten-year-old Carrie Shubrick,who will christen the tcqpedo bratShubrick, lives at Rocky Mount, N. C<,sad is the granddaughter of Lieut. ~Edmund T. Shubrick, whose fatherwas the famous commander. She Isalso the great-granddaughter of RearAdmiral William B. Shubrick.?Gilbert H. Purdy, the seaman in?kaana t\f hfl Olvmnll'l {ft thfl 'WUCI(f;0 VI VU? V4J ?# K _oldest .member of her crew and aveteran of three wars. "Ia the battle ^of Manila," he eays, " I was told to carrywater to the wocuided; bat I andthe surgeons and the chaplain didn'thave anything to do, as there were nowounded."?At a reproduction of the battle ofSan Juan Hill, given at the State Fairgrounds, at Columbus, O., as a part ofthe fair, Charles Krag, 10 years old, ^in the grand stand, was shot throughthe heart and instantly killed. Throe :persons were - severely and severalspectators were slightly injured.?Dampness has ruined the tomb of |1?President Garfield, in Lakeview cemetery,Cleveland, and the structure will '-.Vhave to be entirely rebuilt. Thebronze casket containing the body is ^B8BB|to be removed pending the completionof this work, which will occupy severalweeks. The Garfield monument is alsobadly in need of repairs.?An electric hose carriage is in useby the Paris fire department The.machine weighs over a ton, or, withequipment, nearly three tons. The.equipment consists of six men, apparatusto operate three lines of hose, a |scaling ladder, apparatus for fro incollars, and one for life-saving purpo- '*?sos. It can traveififteen miles an houron good roads.?Lansing, Mich., has the widestdriveway bridge in the United States,if not in the world. The bridge crossesGrand river ?n Michigan avenue, two |squares from the front entrance to theState house. It is of the truss pattern Jand is 115 feet wide in the clear?thefull width of the avenue. On eitherside is a walk sixteen feet wide, ieav- inga roadway eighty-three feet 1awidth. .?England has agents in this countrybuying up all the snltable malesthat can bo secured for service inAfrica. It is doubtful if any Powerwill ever again engage in war withoutfirst taking steps to secure the aer- ,vices of the American mule. It maybe necessary to call on the Rothschildsfor funds to prosecute the campaign,but the American mule will be dependedupon to a considerable extent to /j furnish the power.W H. Gatch, wife of a ^wealthy farmer of Dickinson County,Kansas, has begun her fifth divorcesuit. She has been divorced from fourhusbands and now charges her fifthhusband with cruelty and ill-treatment. mShe married Gatch at Kansas City a Wyear ago. She is 33 years old. Mrs.Gatch has also sued several neighborsfor 85,000 damages becaase they med- . =4died with her domestic affairs. 4f,?One of the departments of Cornell*University kept a record of the detraction'caused by lighting In New *9York State last month. It killed six -H||men, eighteen horses, twenty cows gand one sheep, and struck fifty-nine" * ?* ?tWi,m,hnobarns, twelve residences, mu uuuuUVUand one mill. In proportion thechurches seemed to fare worse thanany other kind of property.